Question: I would like to know what is happening at the Greenville Zoo entrance at East Washington Street. A building was removed. Will something be added in the same location?

Answer: Others might've noticed this newly vacant space as well. However, they may not have realized that two buildings were actually demolished near the corner of East Washington Street and Cleveland Park Drive.

One building was a white, two-story structure that faced Cleveland Park Drive but sat very close to East Washington Street. The city-owned space was called Cleveland Park Center. The remnants of the center and stairs that once led from the East Washington Street sidewalk down to the Cleveland Park Center property are even more visible from the Cleveland Park Drive side.

Cleveland Park Center once housed some of the city's Parks & Recreation Department staff and was also used for storage, according to city spokeswoman Leslie Fletcher.

A single-story building next door, once known as the Cleveland Park Annex, has also been demolished just behind the center. Fletcher said it was used for some recreation programming and as a meeting and small event space in the past.

So what's next for the now vacant spaces?

Parking.

That's right, Greenville is getting more parking, although not immediately. Right now, it's not really an increase in parking spaces, but an effort to replace spaces that will be lost during ReWa's upcoming DIG Greenville project.

Beginning in 2018, ReWa will begin construction of a gravity sewer tunnel that will originate in Cleveland Park. The tunnel will be 10 feet wide and buried 100 feet underground, according to ReWa. It will stretch from Cleveland Park to Hudson Street. The project is expected to take about 30 months to complete.

During that project, the lower parking lot at the Greenville Zoo will be used as a construction staging area. As a nod to the many people who flock to one of Greenville's most popular parks, the city is taking this parking hit into account. The space once occupied by those two buildings on the corner of Cleveland Park Drive and East Washington Street will be used as a parking area to accommodate visitors during the sewer tunnel construction.

Here's the best part, the parking lot will stick around even after construction, adding 164 permanent parking spaces.

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